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| Fri, 02-06-2004 - 10:06am |
New footage has been released purporting to show Saddam Hussein paying large sums of money to a terrorist group.
Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Nicholson says the footage is "incontrovertible proof" of the former Iraqi dictator's links to international terrorism.
It appears to show the former Iraqi President plotting crimes and paying money to members of an international terrorist group.
Baroness Nicholson says the group of men in the footage looked after Saddam's chemical and biological warfare.
The footage given to Sky News was reportedly looted from one of Saddam's palaces.
There has been no independent confirmation of the tapes and Sky News cannot verify their veracity.
However, Baroness Nicholson says there is no doubt the footage highlights Saddam's links to terrorism and chemical weapons.
"This is incontrovertible proof of Saddam Hussein's involvement in international terrorism," she said.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-12986177,00.html

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I tend to agree with that, but the idea that terrorists are trying to attack us in a major and spectacular way is a bit un-nerving, dont you agree?
We were already supplying the Germans with food and other supplies before Germany officially declared war on us. They were torpedoing (sp?) our supply ships before the formal declaration of war.
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April - British Security Coordination office was established by Canadian-born William S. Stephenson, code-named Intrepid, who arrived in the United States to "assure sufficient aid for Britain, to counter the enemy's subversive plans throughout the Western Hemisphere and eventually to bring the United States into the War" (Thomas Mahl, Desperate Deception, p.10)"
>"the idea that terrorists are trying to attack us in a major and spectacular way is a bit un-nerving, dont you agree?"<
Personally I'm not un-nerved or afraid, but I
With regards to the terror alerts, my anxiety level does go up slightly, especially if the alert is increased just around the time I have to fly for business.
I now find myself sitting on the plane and making sure that I am alert to any strange happenings.
I was actually on a plane just about a year after 9/11, where one of the passengers became disoriented, and would not sit down, and kept approaching the forward part of the plane. It did make some people nervous, and finally a few of the other passengers had to take the man back to his seat and almost restrain him. It was not overly physical, but it was slightly unnerving. By the time we arrived at our destination airport, the incident had passed as the man ended up falling asleep, and we were met by EMT's and Federal Air Marshalls, who escorted the man off the plane.
But that might have something to do with the way I look.
That was Kay's opinion, not his finding. His findings had nothing to do with if the war was right or wrong - his job was to find the WMD. A small but important distinction.
I can see how someone can feel uncomfortable with having such weaponry out, but remember, sometimes the display of force is just enough of a deterrant.
The way you look......do you resemble Osama bin Laden?
Quote, "Rumsfeld backed Saddam even after chemical attacks
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
24 December 2003
Fresh controversy about Donald Rumsfeld's personal dealings with Saddam Hussein was provoked yesterday by new documents that reveal he went to Iraq to show America's support for the regime despite its use of chemical weapons.
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Tom Blanton, the director of the National Security Archive, a non-profit group that obtained the documents, told The New York Times: "Saddam had chemical weapons in the 1980s and it didn't make any difference to US policy. The embrace of Saddam and what it emboldened him to do should caution us as Americans that we have to look closely at all our murky alliances."
Last night, Danny Muller, a spokesman for the anti-war group Voices in the Wilderness, said the documents revealed America's "blatant hypocrisy". He added: "This is not an isolated event. Continuing administrations have said 'we will do business'. I am surprised that Donald Rumsfeld does not resign right now."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=475931
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